Emily Cortez

She/Her|| 🇨🇴&🇵🇭 || Hospital Chaplain || Assistant-Editor @ Humans of Adventism || More diary than anything else

[Emily Cortez @PastorEm_]

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It’s been a minute but I’m trying to move to a less hellscape space so hopefully I can find community elsewhere

[Emily Cortez @PastorEm_]

A consult came in at work today from the psych doc. It read: "no psych related issues, patient is sad."

That both amused me and warmed my heart. Like yeah buddy, you’re just going through it!!

Grateful to work in a capacity where I can help hold someone’s sad.

[Emily Cortez @PastorEm_]

I gotta use this acc more 🙈

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Boop

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Honorable mention:

Spaghetti, Desert Eagle, Amen

The whole album is masterful

[Emily Cortez @PastorEm_]

It enough of my mutuals are talking about Cowboy Carter 😤

Top five so far:

Daughter
Tyrant
Ya Ya
Protector
II Most Wanted

[Emily Cortez @PastorEm_]

@krissaelle I’d be so appalled!!!!

[Emily Cortez @PastorEm_]

@krissaelle No. Nooooooo. That’s awful?!

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@sdacaricatures 💀💀💀 I’m good

[Emily Cortez @PastorEm_]

What should I do with my extra wedding invites? I’m torn between sending them to companies (LEGO, DropoutTv, my favorite sports teams) or just trashing them??

[Emily Cortez @PastorEm_]

He rode in on a donkey, he chose passivity over aggression.

One day we sing hosanna the next we shout crucify him.

How many times have we gotten it wrong?
Is there enough grace for us to confess we got this wrong God.

Forgive us, let us try to get it right.

[Emily Cortez @PastorEm_]

I keep thinking about Palm Sunday, how the popular depiction of Jesus has him riding triumphantly to the sound of cheering crowds.
And, as readers who know the next part of the story, how incredibly wrong we can get the situation of what’s happening.

Jesus chose peace.

[Emily Cortez @PastorEm_]

@krissaelle Our work is so difficult you’d think more of us would want community with others who “get it”, you know?

I know I’m certainly lucky to have you as a colleague! 🙌🏼

[Emily Cortez @PastorEm_]

I need more friends who are chaplains.

It’s wild to me that within my hospital system there isn’t a gathering of the spiritual care teams. I think we should know each other especially because we often have overlapping patients 🙃

[Emily Cortez @PastorEm_]

Check on your young people.

I have had back to back weekends of young people in my hospital for attempted unaliving themselves.

They feel like no one cares if they’re here.

Please tell the young people in your life that you care that they’re here. It could save their life.

[Emily Cortez @PastorEm_]

And I get to be here, I get to support another generation of kids trying to make their way through this difficult life.
My lived experiences can be tools to bring healing and life.

It isn’t much, but it’s mine. And I get to make the most of it.

[Emily Cortez @PastorEm_]

So today I tried a new approach. As we concluded our visit I said I hope that you get the chance to be an elder Queer and you can look back on your life and feel relief that it didn’t end at 19.
And they cried. And I cried.

Because life didn’t end for me at 18. Or 21.

[Emily Cortez @PastorEm_]

Over the last three days I have poured much of my self into this patient and it struck me that I was trying to will this patient to live.

We cannot love someone into making choices we want them to make.

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TW: Suicide

Over the weekend I had a patient consult for a young person, a teenager really, who had been previously houseless, who is gender non-conforming, and attempted to end their life.

[Emily Cortez @PastorEm_]

Today I will be great. And if I can’t be great, well at least I was me today.